Question: I am completely disappointed, what should my next step be?

Answer: I no longer have any disappointment. I have already become disappointed, and I have already parted even with the disappointment itself. What is left for me? Nothing. Only to be in the same state as the Creator. That is, to give everything away, return everything, settle all accounts, be empty, absolutely free.

And after that, if I am fortunate enough, I can begin to think about how to engage in bestowal, how to ask the Creator for the ability to bestow freely, selflessly, with no expectation of anything in return. Why? For what purpose? There is no answer. To whom? There is no answer. Simply as it is written: “Cast your bread upon the waters.”

Question: Is this true freedom?

Answer: Yes. There is no state better than this.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman,” 6/29/26

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In the article “A Speech for the Completion of The Zohar,” Baal HaSulam writes that the difference in qualities from the Creator is checked first and foremost according to a person’s thoughts. If a person thinks about himself, asks questions: “Do I exist or not, what will happen to me, what is the meaning of life?” and so on, from which everything begins, it means that he is immersed in himself, enclosed in his shell, as it is said, turned “facing himself.”

Then, of course, he is cut off from the Creator, since the Creator has no thoughts about Himself that are directed inward toward Himself. He has only the thought of bestowal, to do good, directed outwardly. Therefore, these thoughts, even the most general ones, such as “do I exist?”,  separate a person from the Creator.

Question: But don’t these thoughts also come from the Creator?

Answer: Naturally! All thoughts come from Him. They come in order for you to pay attention to them. A person is never punished for who he is at the given moment.

It is only in our world that if a person steals, he is sent to prison. In the Torah, it is not like that! If you steal, the very act itself is called the punishment, and now you must carry out the corrections. The act itself is the reward or the punishment.

But punishment does not mean that a person is being punished; he simply, in accordance with his actions, comes to another degree, from which he begins to advance again.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/5/26, Rabash, “What Does, ‘Everything that Comes to Be a Burnt Offering Is Male,’ Mean in the Work?”

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We study that there are various actions performed by the Kelim (vessels) through the screen and through discernments. If we truly clarify the essence of these actions, we see that this is, first, an awareness of what is happening to me, who is doing it to me, why, and what is wanted from me.

After we discern all these states, they are replaced by new, better states. That is, a person has no control over the actions; the Creator performs them. But the person, being the sensing element, must discern within their sensations what is actually happening to them. And as soon as one discerns a given state, it is replaced by another one. They discern another state, and once again it is replaced by a new one.

The discernment includes the following elements: what I feel, who sent it to me, and for what purpose. This is called the work of correcting the perception.

In reality, we are already in the corrected state, in the world of infinity, and all that we need is to correct the obscurity (the clouding) in our organs of perception. In fact, I do not even need to correct them. What is important is to be constantly aware that I am in darkness, and then the darkness becomes clarified.

To the extent that I understand how negative the state of darkness is, I reveal the Achoraim, the reverse side. Then the Achoraim (concealment) is replaced by the state of Panim (revelation). Thus, all actions consist only of our inner effort.

We must make an effort to find a way to unite my “I” (myself) and the Creator into one whole. As Baal HaSulam writes in a letter: “Only upon this point must I concentrate my efforts, sharpening my focus more and more.”

And if I do this, that is my action. Then all this fog becomes increasingly clear until I discover myself in my original corrected state. I will reveal that I am already in the state of the final correction.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 7/3/26, Rabash, “What Is, “There Is None as Holy as the Lord, for There Is None Besides You,” in the Work?”

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Question: What does it mean to fulfill the commandments “in practice”?

Answer: “In practice” means performing an actual spiritual action, when you lay the foundation of a Masach (Screen) over your desire. In his articles, Rabash is not speaking about commandments such as putting on Tefillin every morning, but about correcting desire.

Why do you call putting on Tefillin in the morning a “commandment in practice,” rather than the inner action of correcting your desire? Within you there are 613 desires, and these are what you must correct. It is for this purpose that you have gone through many reincarnations.

Would you like another reincarnation? Very well. And another after that? You will have that as well. But in the end, you will have to correct the 613 desires in your soul. Precisely them, this is what the Torah speaks about. At the same time, you should perform the corresponding actions in this world, that is, observe the commandments as they exist in this world. But what you truly wish is to correct yourself with respect to the spiritual world.

Comment: There seems to be a certain distinction here.

My Response: There is indeed a distinction, but it should not lead you astray. What does this distinction consist of? Am I to blame because I am not a Cohen or a Levite? True, I cannot perform the commandments that apply specifically to Kohanim or Levites in this world. But spiritually, I must fulfill them.

Am I to blame because, for example, I am not a firstborn or  a woman? A woman has commandments that I do not. Thank God, I am neither a widower nor divorced, but they, too, have commandments that apply specifically to them.

Spiritually, however, you are obligated to fulfill all of these commandments, from “A” to “Z” You must pass through every state corresponding to all 620 of your desires.

In the corporeal world, it is different. For example, today we have no Temple, and I am not a farmer. Do you know what it means, according to the Torah, to be a farmer when the Temple exists? Do you know all the laws and ordinances that apply? I am also not a servant in the Temple, nor do I offer sacrifices. I am not the High Priest, with all that this entails.

In this world we are given only signs and hints. A person may observe them or not observe them, that is not what determines the spiritual path. In spirituality, however, you are obligated to correct all 620 parts of the soul, that is, the 613 commandments together with the seven commandments of the sages.
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From Daily Kabbalah Lesson on 7/2/26, Rabash, Article 21, 1988 “What Does It Mean that the Torah Was Given Out of the Darkness in the Work? ”

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